Colonel Charles Knight Wood OBE (1 July 1851 – 12 February 1923)[1] was a British Army officer in the Royal Engineers and footballer who played as a forward.
He went to the Woolwich Academy, where he proved distinguished in both military and academic matters, winning the Silver Bugle (for highest marks) in 1872 and the Despatch Box (for athletic excellence) in both 1871 and 1872.
[4] Wood joined the Royal Engineers in 1872[5] and was quickly recruited for its football side, his first recorded match for the Sappers being a 3–0 win in the first round of the 1872–73 FA Cup over the Civil Service in November 1872 at the Chatham Lines.
In the latter conflict he sustained a permanent injury to his leg, and was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal with six clasps; he retired in 1904 with the rank of colonel.
[16] Wood, a "fine and versatile actor", died on 12 February 1923, in Bodenham, Herefordshire, of bronchial pneumonia, just a week after he was starring in a charity play at the Kemble Theatre in Hereford.